GT-UniT

Lucas Muller (INF/UFRGS), Rodrigo Mansilha (INF/UFRGS), Leonardo Bays (INF/UFRGS), Luciano Gaspary (INF/UFRGS), Marinho Barcellos (INF/UFRGS)
Nov 1, 2013
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Project: GT-UNIT: Observing the BitTorrent Universe Through Telescopes, funded by RNP (2010–2013).

Goal: development of a monitoring architecture to allow the observation of BitTorrent networks seeking to pinpoint sharing of illegal files (e.g. child pornography) and copyrighted content.

Nowadays, the service is in use by the Incident Response and Security Team at the Brazilian Academic backbone network (RNP).

BitTorrent security network monitoring copyrighted content illegal files concluded

Publications

Disconnecting to Connect: understanding Optimistic Disconnection in BitTorrent
The significance of BitTorrent motivated various studies focused on modeling and evaluating the protocol characteristics and its …
Matheus Lehmann, Lucas Müller, Ph.D., Rodolfo Antunes, Marinho Barcellos
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